Words You Don't Like
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I hate the word Pervasive.
Even though i suppose pervasive could apply to something nice, to me i only hear it when its connected to something unpleasant. The word just has a negative feel and sound to it.
pervasive (comparative more pervasive, superlative most pervasive)
Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.
Even though i suppose pervasive could apply to something nice, to me i only hear it when its connected to something unpleasant. The word just has a negative feel and sound to it.
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A word people use only at work to try and make themselves sound businesslike or important.
Probably time I was somewhere else...
My mother-in-law, at the dinner table will say she's had 'suffish', if you offer her more food, and she calls her kids 'presh', which I'm assuming is short for precious.
It's enough to drive me to drink.
Urgh, just typing that word makes me shudder.....
Here's all of them in the wild:
'"I was literally shocked at the vile drivel spouting out of that imbecile's mouth", fumed mother-of-two Tracey, 46, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent'.
To be fair, the things that WUMs often come up with couldn't be described any better than drivel
Yes! So annoying! "I've got to go, it's baby's bath time" "don't play the TV too loud, baby's sleeping" >:( Several family members do this!
I also hate it when adults turn to other adults and ask "how's mum coping? Hmm? Ok, and how's dad?" - call them by their bloody names will you? >:(
I also hate the word tits or titties in relation to women's breasts. Just makes me wanna cringe ^_^
I truly hate the word and, worse, the condescension that seeps out of those who use it.
BIB: summed it up perfectly. It's a horrible word.
My mum is the same, she hates hearing people talk about carnival.
I hate the word sket.
It was acceptable speech back in Elizabethan times and probably why the colonies still use it. As with many words of the language that are now out of favour, a lot of different words from older English (Middle English?) are used in different regions still.
That might be the case but It just seems all wrong to me, I will never use it.